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An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. On Why Integrated Care Should Be a Cornerstone of the HHS Agenda

Integrated Care News by CFHA

At the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA), we see your agenda aligning with ours in powerful ways. If your vision for health in America is about access, dignity, and truly holistic care, then integrated care should be at the heart of your Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) platform. Let me explain.

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Mental Health in Michigan: A Direct Primary Care Approach

Plum Health

Paul, a direct primary care physician here in the Detroit, Michigan. I've seen firsthand the challenges people face when it comes to accessing quality mental health care. Long wait times, high costs, and limited availability of providers can make it feel like you're on your own.

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What Does Behavioral Health Provider Practice in Primary Care Look Like? [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

Integrated behavioral health (IBH) within primary care can help patients receive quality whole person care, however little is documented about the distribution and nature of time spent in key activities by integrated psychologists (i.e., Behavioral Health Providers, BHPs).

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Deprescribing Super Special Part II: Podcast with Elizabeth Bayliss, Ariel Green, and Kevin McConeghy

GeriPal

My take home from this is that while the most preferred explanation for deprescribing statins and sedative-hypnotics is one focused on the risk of side effects, we also need to individualize it to the patient and the medication that they are taking. It’s underappreciated, I think, by providers and by patients. Eric: Yeah.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

So they can be referred by their primary care doctor or to us. You can choose comfort-focused care or you can choose to continue chemotherapy. In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime. They didn’t have a mentor, a financial provider, all of those things. They suffered from it.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

GeriPal

And I think that I love this paper you wrote because the audience or the patients that you focused on in the last four years in particular also in a Venn diagram, like many of the same patients I care for in home based primary care. Ashwin 37:38 I like these open ended questions as well.

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Sexual Function in Serious Illness: Areej El-Jawahri, Sharon Bober, and Don Dizon

GeriPal

And so clearly it matters how you bring up the topic, who brings up the topic, and probably the timing when this comes up for patients and families, just like we think about conversations about illness and prognostic understanding, I wish there was a good prevalent state data on how big this is of a problem in serious illness at large.

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